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必克BBC新闻:华盛顿和纽约爆发抗议种族歧视游行活动

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BBC news with Sue Montgomery.

Several thousand people have been taking part in marches in Washington and New York to protest against police violence in the US. The demonstrations follow recent high-profile cases of killings of unarmed black men by US police. Many demonstrators braving the cold weather carrying placards saying black lives matter and stop racist police. The civil rights leader Al Sharpton told the crowds in Washington legislative change was needed.

We come to Washington to come on this congress and national government to do what was done before we need national legislation and intervention to save us from state grand juries that seize all right to tell people even untake and you won't wear in the cop.

The Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir has claimed victory over the international criminal court after the chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda hold the investigations into alledged war crimes in Darfur. Mike Sanders has more. Presdient Bashir said the ICC had try to make Sudan keenl but his people were adamant that no Sudanese official should appear before a colonial court. The ICC is had a bad month.

First, it dropped the case against Kenya's president Uhuru Kenyatta over his alledged involvement in post election clings in 2008. The Ugandan's president Yoweri Museveni said the African union members should leave the ICC to the whites. A jibe that chimes with African indigen nation that the court has focused entirely on Africa since it was set up in 2002.

Bolivia's military and police forces have began registering overweight members in their runs after president Evo Morales complained that too many of them were out of shape. Here's Kander Speret. Bolivian press reports say date on the weighten fitness of candidates will be registered druing next roudns of professional exams and following complains from the rank confile the government has been providing sports equipment to improve fitness facilities.

Police and military officials are also forbidden overweight members from wearing uniforms until left fit enough to get into them. That move may already has delived results if unexpected ones. In the town ofOruro south of La Paz, 2 policemen patrolling in civilian clothing succeed in catching some theives in the street market. Apparently because they weren't in unifrom.

At least 7 people have been killed in a suscide attack on a bus carring soidiers in the Afghan capital Cabul. The Taliban says it carried out the attack. In the day of violece across the country, militants also killed a senior judicial official and at least 11 people working to clear unexploded oddments in the Helmand in the south.

BBC news.

The US senate is holding a rare Saturday session for a series of votes on a huge spending bill that lawmakers need to approve to avert government shutdown. The bill worth 1.1 trillion dollars is to fund the federal government until September next year. Washington's current spending authority expires at the midnight on Saturday. The bill has already been passed by the house of representatives.

Delegates to the UN's climate summit in Peru are considering a comprimise outline of an agreemnt on how to tackle golbal warming outline on scheduled 13th day of talks. But the draft text has been rejected by several developing countries. China said it put too much burden on the poor to limit greenhouse gas emissions compared with the rich countries which burnt most fossil fuels. The American envoy Todd Stern urged all nations to accept the comprimise text or efforts to draw up a legally bingding agreement next year in Paris would be threatened.

Failing to produce the decision before us will be seen as a major breakdown and will deal a serious blow to the confidence of parties and others as we approach Paris and did to the hope of Paris agreement.

There's been another near enccounter between a civilian plane and a Russian military aircraft in the Baltic. Eyewitness reports make the Russian plane being on a collision course was a passeger jet. The Swedish defense minister said the Russian plane had been flying with its transponder's switch off. He called the Russian actions serious and unacceptable and done right dangerous.

The people of Japan are going to the poll shortly to vote in a slap parliamentary election called last month by prime minister Shinzo Abe. Mr. Abe wants to continue its programme of economic change and is seeking a fresh mandate to do so. He and his Liberal Democratic party are been tipped to win decisively.

BBC news.

词汇解析

origin

难度:4星核心词汇,属常用3000词

英汉解释

n.起源;出身;[数]原点;起因

参考例句

用作名词 (n.)

The social unrest has its origins in economic problems.

社会动荡是经济问题引起的。

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capture

难度:4星核心词汇,属常用3000词

英汉解释

vt.捕获;占领;夺取;吸引;(用照片等)留存

n.捕获;战利品

参考例句

用作及物动词 (vt.)

The company looks forward to capturing the Canadian market.

该公司期待获得加拿大市常

用作名词 (n.)

Rybalko's defeat left Kharkov wide open, and Manstein soon set his panzers rolling north again to capture the prize.

雷巴尔科的失败时的哈尔科夫门户大开,曼施泰因很快把他的装甲部队调往北部,再次去俘获战利品。

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aviation

难度:3星常用词汇,属常用6000词

英汉解释

n.航空;飞机制造业

参考例句

用作名词 (n.)

He devoted all his life to China's aviation.

他的一生都奉献给了中国的航空事业。

In old China,there was hardly any machine- building industry,to say nothing of automobile and aviation industries.

旧中国几乎没有机器制造业,更不用说汽车制造业和飞机制造业了。

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opponent

难度:3星常用词汇,属常用6000词

英汉解释

n.对手;反对者;敌手

adj.反对的;敌对的

参考例句

用作名词 (n.)

I tried to comfort him after he was defeated by his opponent.

他被对手击败后,我尽力安慰他。

Jack was really going for his opponent,ahnding it out with both fists.

杰克毫不客气地向她的敌手进攻,用双拳把他狠狠地揍了一顿。

用作形容词 (adj.)

The company, which had long been an opponent of electrification, changed its stance earlier this year in light of slipping global sales.

该公司长期以来一直反对的电气化,改变了其立场,在今年早些时候,鉴于全球销售下滑。

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battery

难度:4星核心词汇,属常用3000词

英汉解释

n.电池;一系列;炮兵连;排炮;[律]殴打

参考例句

用作名词 (n.)

My car battery has run down; it needs recharging.

我的汽车电池没电了,需要充电。

An enemy battery zeroed in on the crossroad.

敌人炮兵集中炮火于那个十字路口。

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award

难度:5星基本词汇,属常用1000词

英汉解释

n.奖品;奖

v.授予;给予;判给

参考例句

用作名词 (n.)

It is impossible to honor her with the award.

奖品授给她是不可能的。

用作动词 (v.)

The university awarded him an honorary degree.

这所大学授给他名誉学位。

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reaction

难度:3星常用词汇,属常用6000词

英汉解释

n.反应;生理反应;反应能力;复旧;反动;化学反应

参考例句

用作名词 (n.)

Her arrest produced an immediate reaction from the press.

她被捕的事立刻在新闻界引起反应。

After all the excitement there was an inevitable reaction.

热闹一番过后,生活沉闷如故。

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